We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Susan Gerhart

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

Steven Wright

He was a multimillionaire. Wanna know how he made all of his money? He designed the little diagrams that tell which way to put batteries in.

Steven Wright

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

E. O. Wilson

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Roy Disney

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Thomas Jefferson